Know HTML and CSS, but not PHP....



Just relax!!!

:2drinkspit:Hey just chill out... Everything is gonna be ok. You seem to know enough to get you through until youcan manage to learn php. I got faith in ya!!
 
Actually, if you know html and css php shouldn't be very hard for you. It's a very simple loosely typed language. I would say a couple hours on a site like Tizag Tutorials (mentioned above) should get you feeling comfortable doing some simple tasks. I believe tizag also covers some basic mysql database stuff to get you started. You can do a lot with even a simple understanding of Php.
 
Any good books that the php gurus would recommend for someone just learning php from the ground up?
 
efeezy said:
Any good books that the php gurus would recommend for someone just learning php from the ground up?
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I like the feel of a real book also but you can get started with some Googling which will put you at tizag.com or w3schools.com 90% of the time, then you can use php.net as a reference because they literally have every command indexed, like if you are looking at some code and wondering what the function sprintf() does you can just go to php.net/sprintf and you get the docs plus user comments, not bad...
 
php is a simple scripting language. dont freak out if you dont know it. just learn by using PHP to create the solution that you need. you'll learn it eventually.
 
PHP is one of the easiest languages to learn - it lets you get away with such unstructured crap that other languages won't let you get away with. Not that it's smart to write sloppy code, but you don't have to be a whiz to program basic things in PHP (redirects, sub ID insertion, randomizing, etc...). THere are also a million code samples available to help you out.
 
personally, ive read books, and done tutorials - the whole 9 trying to fully understand PHP. variables, arrays, functions, conditional statements - database integration. There IS common ground with most languages, and if you've dabbled back in the day, it is pretty simple to pickup.

but what i found worked for me is that I found a project that interested ME that I built from the ground up using php/sql. Between troubleshooting broken code, utilizing correct syntax/form, and generating the fastest queries to my DB, I learned how to build an outstanding web app - and ALSO learned php better than any of those tutorials/books ever read me.
 
tvmatt said:
PHP is one of the easiest languages to learn - it lets you get away with such unstructured crap that other languages won't let you get away with. Not that it's smart to write sloppy code, but you don't have to be a whiz to program basic things in PHP (redirects, sub ID insertion, randomizing, etc...). THere are also a million code samples available to help you out.
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I agree, and would say in general PHP is a great "gateway language" that can help you get started in other more complex ones
 
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